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Canada and Iraq

19/03/2003

When I started writing for this website, I made a conscious decision to focus on domestic issues and, especially, local ones. I made this decision because this is where my interest lies and because so few others were doing the same thing. For every person writing about Toronto, there must be five thousand bloggers writing about US foreign policy. Nevertheless, current events have made the Iraq issue the dominant Canadian one, and a very relevant one tonight.
Perhaps later I will write about my point of view on our involvement (or not). My concern tonight is with the expression of Canadian sovereignty.
There may be arguments to be made against the position that Canada has taken in opposing war outside a UN mandate. One argument without merit whatsoever is the argument that we ought to take part to avoid offending our neighbours to the south.
Yes, it is true that Canada's rejection of this action is likely to cause a bit of ill will from Americans. In fact, I have already experienced it myself in the form of a not-so-anonymous email that I received from a Chicagonian who stiffed me on eBay two years ago. He wrote: